Seeing as Mattel never felt a re-release was warranted, things like this will happen.

_________________'...because the minute a little girl is trampled by 100 teenage girls trying to get to Justin Beiber at the Tea Cups, you will be wondering why the hell we make poor Justin Beiber stand in a 30 minute line and create an unsafe atmosphere.'

Nearly every line will have it's hard to get figures. With hundreds of figures this line was bound to have a few and considering how many figures released at retail there are I'd say maybe about 8 that are what I would call hard to get now. I saw all of them except Volcana at retail multiple times too but I wasn't collecting JLU when she came out.

Might be forgetting some but this is what I'd consider hard to get figures now you'll shell out anywhere from $30-$125 for each of them that were at retail.

I sat down last night with my son and opened up every JLU figure I still had in the package. And man did I have some rare ones.

But you know what? It'll be much more enjoyable to me for him to play with those. Can't take the cash with me.

yeah that is cool, I cant wait till my little girl is old enough and i can turn her into a toy nerd like me

My son will be 6 in a few months and my daughter is 3...and they both love playing with action figures. I'm really looking to get some more loose JLU or DCIH because those fit pretty well with my batcave, hall of justice, some of my vehicles...etc.

NO - GIVE ME YOUR CHILD'S TRANSLUCENT VOLCANA. THEY WILL NOT APPRECIATE IT AS MUCH AS I WILL.

(I'm kidding. Kinda.)

I'm also surprised by some of the prices of these figures on Ebay. I guess I thought things like the shoddy plastic would affect their long-term value, but silly me...a bottle cap can sell for 100 dollars if it's rare, right?

sigh, yes the prices are high on some of these, but mattel would have to make 1000s of them to "turn on" the machines on and they would just sit.

See this is the thing, we know they would've had to make a large enough number of the hard to find packs to warrant "turning the machines on" so where did they end up?I wonder if one day these will be found in some dusty cases in a warehouse and will be sent out to discount stores.